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" King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. "
Constance Baker Motley
Georgia
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" New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. "
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" I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s. "
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